Huntsville gazette., 1887-01-29
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

Sing Sing eat twenty-one barrels OF flour
daily.-M. Y. Sun.
1t is reported on excellent authority
that no pet dog is properly accoutred
now unless he wears silver bangle on
his off hind leg.-M Y. Aail.
A Boston party puta large terrapin
in a box and kept it there three months
withou.. gr Last week he
took it a sat it weighed
an ounce asthan it did three months
ago. SosszS5ss ttlsees-reess.A.ssz9lys
There is an appealing touch OF
pathos in ex-Minister Lowelrs response
to a criticism on his use of word-de-
clarino that till recently, till within
few months, he had never thought OF
going to the dictionary to be sure OF
word. d.-Boston Budget.
In Philadelphia recently wedding
ceremony was performed with the Fort
ucese ritual. The couple stood under
a silken canopy, which was upheld by
four posts decorated with flowers, and
at the conclusion of the ceremony the
groom crushed glass under his foot as
a symbolic act.
One of the largest and finest gold
NUGGETS ever unearthed in California
is now on exhibition in San Francisco.
It is about the size of an ordinary
Derby hat, and weighs thlrty-nVe
pounds and is worth $6,0oo. ureas
..gobs' Of gold hang out Of its Sides
San Francisco Chronicle.
Among the toys Of the children o.
the Imperial family of Austria +
GROUP of china soldiers, representing
All the different uniforms in the Aus
trian army from the most remote DAYS
70 the present The Emperor trar els
Joseph received 1t from his fath> er. and
gave itste the Grown Prime Rudolph.
who was eight years OLD at that +,,,a
The champion toboyran slide bas
been toe'iStrue''- at Kingston, N. Y.
1he tee'SSSSls go long distance down
one 'spssS' incline and, paradoxical as
~ may appear, on the return trip they
aeseefd nearly as great a distance, at
the<end of which, on ascending q lono
! hght Of stairs, the toboooaners find
themselves at the point where they
started flom.-N Z. Herald.
-1he General Presbyterian Assem-.
bly has autLorihtivdy declared that
Adam was without natural parentage
OF any kind. This was an ADVANTAGE
Ii some OF cur would-be American ariss
tocrrPts were Without parentaGe If anv
kind they might be able 10 trace th~:.,
ancestry back two Or three ,r
wittioht stlikino generations
o butcher or soap-fat
-..-Norristoa6n (Pa. ! Herald.
In Saco, Me-, one night recently
Miss Bertha Weymouth filled jug
with water, corked it and put it on the
stove to heat before taking it to bed.
When it was hot enough she started up
stairs and then, with big. bang, the
cork flew out and the hot water spurted
into her face, scalding her badly. She
now knows more about the power of
steam than she did.-Boston Herald.
President Grevy, of the French Re-
| public, receives ayearly salary of $780,
600, besides the following allowances;
$4,000 for heating and lighting, serv-
ants, and washing, 100000 for his
entertainments and journeys; $95, 900
for the maintenance of his game pre-
serves. He also has an elegant resi-
dence provided for him, is deadhead
on all railroads, has Il free box at the
opera and theater and is not called up
on to contribute for the relief of earth
quake sufferers.
DR.. GILES de Ia Tourette has re-
Gently published monograph upon
normal locomotion and the variation in
the gait caused by diseases of the nerv-
Gus system. He found, from a COM
parison of a large number of cases,
that the average length of pace is, for
men, twenty-five inches; for women,
twenty inches. The step with the right
foot is somewhat longer than that with
the left. The feet are separated late
rally in walking about four and one
haf inches in men and about five
inches in women.
-Worl1men while repairing house
In Brooklyn, n Y, discovered bag
containing two thousand five hundred
dollars in gold under one of the floors,
and turned it over to the landlord. The
last occupant, a man whose wife -
in the house, now sues the L. =, died
the money, alleging tha+ -.ndlord for
helpmeet used to ,onis late thrifty
his pockets r extract money from
never fnd -aDitualIy, that he could
that :. trace of it, and is convinced
the concealed treasure was the ac-
cumulated deposits she had relieved
him of.-Brooblyn Union.
IF you had a note to pay to-day"
he said, as he sat in an Insurance office
looking straight at the agent, 'and
you had all the money but five dollars,
would you ask friend to lend it to you
or would you let your note 90 to pro
test and ruin your credit?" ..Let the